Printing-machine.



PRINTIN G MACHINE.

APPLIC ATION FILED MAY 10, 1907- Patented June 27, 1916.

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Patented June 27, 1916.

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PRINTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 10. 1901.

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PRINTING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED MAY 10, i907.

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PRINTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY I0. I907.

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BENJAMIN OTTO FANSLOW, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO'POLYGRAPH DUPLICATING TYPEWRITER COMPANY, A CORPO- RATION OF NEW YORK.

PRINTING-MACHINE. I

Application filed May 10,

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN 0. FAN- snow, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los 'Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Printing-Machines, of which the following is a description.

This invention relates to printing machines, having reference more particularly to improvements in a printing machine heretofore invented by me wherein the printing 'from a type-bed, elect'roplate, or otherv composition is effected through the agency of a printing ribbon overlying the same and an impression roller rolling over the sheet of paper or other. material on which the print is to be made placed above said ribbon, such machine constituting the subject-matter of Letters Patent #873,361, granted to me on the 10th day of December, 1907. The leading use to which such a machine is put is the production of multiple copies of letters;

and the subject-matter of the present invention relates moreparticularly to a means in the nature of anaddressing attachment for said machine, whereby successive letters, as they are printed, may be supplied with different addresses at the same time that the body of the letter is printed.

A further extension of the principle of the present invention, which I have also illustrated herein, consists in the addition of a device whereby the envelop may be printed simultaneously with the printing of each letter and its special address.

The invention will be readily understood when considered in connection with the ac,-

companying drawings illustrating practical embodimentsthereof and in which:

Figure 1 is a plan wherein part of the printing-ribbon is broken out of my improved printing machine equipped with an attachment for printing different addresses at the heads of the letters; Fig. 2 is a lon-..

gitudinal, vertical section through the. machine of Fig. -1; Fig. 3 is an endelevation corresponding to Fig. 1; Fig. 4 1s a cross Specification of Letters Patent.

1907. Serial No. evasion section on the line 44 of 1, looking Patented June 2a, 1916.

in the direction indicated by the arrows in Fig. 1; Fig. 5 is a detail plan of a portion of the type-carrying chain constituting an element of the addressing mechanism; 6 is an edge view of oneof the links of said chain; Fig. 7 is a detail elevation of one of the types; Fig. 8 is a cross section of a link of the type-carrying chain, showing the type inserted therein; Fig. 9 is a plan of the machine equipped for addressing envelops simultaneously with the printing of a com plete letter; Fig. '10 is a cross section on'the line l0].0 of Fig. 9, looking in the direction indicatedby the arrows in Fig. 9; and i Fig. 11 is a part-longitudinal section of the 7 machine on the line 11 11 of Fig. 99, viewed in the direction indicated by the arrows in Fig. 9.

Referring to the drawings, and first briefly describing the principal parts of the printing machine proper, such as are disclosed and claimed in my patent hereinabove referred to, 12 designates the horizontal stationary bed of the machine, here in shown as supporting a chase 13 of type,- and provided with parallel low side-walls 14, the upper surfaces of which constitute tracks or ways for the ends of an impression-roller 15, which latter is journaled bearings in a carriage 16, extending across the bed, said carriage having verticalends a 17 (Fig. 3) provided with rollers 18, which engage with the undercut grooves 19, formed in the lateral projectionsof the side-walls.

forth over the tracks 14. A printing-ribbon 22, of suflicient width to entirely cover the type-bed, is mounted at its oppositeends on rollers 23, journaled 1n the ends of the bed,

which rollers are provided on one end with ratchet-disks 24, adapted to be engaged and turned, one tooth ata tune, by pawls 25, mounted upon the carriage 16. Sald pawls are secured to the carriage of .the impression-roller as by screws 27, Figs. 1, 3 and 9, whereby the pawls may be alternately turned upwardly and out of operative position, as indicated at the right in Fig. 1, so that but one. pawl will operate during the feed of the ribbon in one direction, the other pawl being thrown into operative position as soon as the ribbon has made a complete traverse over the bed-frame. The parts are so adjusted that the imression-roller 15 which is preferably rub er-surfaced, will have a yielding pressure on the ribbon 22 and, through the latter, on the type in the chase13; so that an impression of the type will be distinctly printed, through the inking-ribbon 22, on the lower surface of a sheet of. paper placed thereon, such as is indicated at 28, in Fig. 2, interposed between i the impression-roller 15 and the printingribbon, when the cylinder is rolled over sald Coming now more particularly to those parts and devices which constitute principally the subject-matter of the present invention, and referring first to the simpler form of the invention illustrated in-Figs. 1 to 4, inclusive, a carrier 29, having the form of a hexagonal plate or blockis shown mounted in a vertical plane transversely of the bed of the machine on a longitudinal shaft 30, said carrier projecting upward through a slot or opening 31, in the bed of the machine, to such an extent that its flat,"

marginal surfaces, when at their highest points, lie substantially in the horizontal plane of the upper face of the type-chase 13. Engaging the polygonal periphery of the carrier 29 is a chain, which may be endless, or of any required length adapted to carry the number of addresses represented by each link thereof, this chain being made up of a series of pivoted links 32 (Figs. 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6), each of which links constitutes a type-carrier or frame for the type consti-. tuting an address. The links 32 are made of substantially the same width as the width of the carrier 29, and are preferably, and

in accordance with the present invention,

constructed to removably and securely hold the type in the following manner. Each link is formed with one or more longitudinal slots 33, Fig. 5, the opposite margins whereof are turned upwardly at an angle, as shown at 34. The type 35, as shown more particularly in the detail view, Fig. 7, is formed with a pair of transverse converging grooves 26, on its under side, thereby leaving a depending dove-tailedv projection 37 between said grooves; and by sliding the type endwise upon and between the turnedup flanges 34 of the link or type carrier 32, said turned-up flanges engage the grooves 36 of each of the types, while the dove-tailed projection 37 snugly fits the slot between and of oppositely-projecting pawls 40.

moval; and, furthermore, it permits the bases 37 of the type to rest securely and squarely upon the polygonal edges of the carrier 29, as the links successively come into engagement with said edges under the turning of the shaft 30. When a line or row of type has been set up it may be secured I against endwise displacement by tightlyfitting stops of rubber, or other suitable material inserted in the ends of the type-holder. The several links are connected by ordinary hinge-pintles 38, engaging eyes 32 and hooks 32 on meeting ends of the links, to accommodatewhich pintles the corners of the polygonal carrier are notched or recessed transversely, as shown at 29 in Fig. 4.

The addressing device thus constituted is automatically actuated to bring a fresh address into the printing plane on each to and fro movement of the impression-roller and its carriage by the mechanism next to be described. Depending from one side of the impression-roller carriage 16 is a bracket 39 (Figs. 2 and 3), to which are pivoted a pair These pawls, at the limit of travel of the impression-roller carriage in each direction, en-

gage ratchet-di sks 41, which are fast on short shafts 42, Figs. 2, 3 and 4 and indicated in dotted lines in Figs. 1 and 9, journaled in bearings beneath the bed of the machine, which shafts 42 carry on their inner ends bevel-wheels 43, which mesh with bevel-pinions 44, on the opposite ends of the longitudinal shaft 30, carrying the chaincarrier 29. It will thus be seen that each time the impression-roller carriage 16 reaches the end of its travel, having 'overrun thechase 13 and the type-chain 32, carrying the addresses, said type-chain is moved through part of a revolution corresponding to the number of flat surfaces on the chaincarrier 29, thus presenting a new address at each such movement; so that all the attendant has todo is to supply a fresh sheet of paper properly positioned above the ribbon after each complete movement of the impression-roller.

Figs. 9 to 11 illustrate an extension of the mechanism herein last described to adapt the machine to print an envelop simultaneously with the printing of a letter. In this case, I provide on the other side of the longitudinal axis of the machine-bed another chain-carrier 45, similar in all respects to the carrier 29, said carrier 45 supporting a chain of links 46, similar in all respects to the links 32, supported by the carrier 29.

This carrier 45 is mounted on a short longitudinal shaft 47, journa-led beneath the bed of the machine, which shaft is geared to the main longitudinal shaft 30, by spur-gears 48 and 49, on said shafts 47 and 30, respectively, and an intermediate idler-gear 50. In this arrangement, the ratchet-disks represented by 41, Figs. 9 and 10, are preferably located at diagonally opposite corners of the bed-frame, and are geared to the shaft 30 and 47 by bevel-gear and pinion mechanism similar to that already described and clearly shown in the plan, Fig. 9. In this case, of course, the actuating-pawls 40 are mounted on opposite ends of the impression-roller carriage, respectively.

From the foregoing it will be seen that,

by laying a sheet of paper upon the part of the printing-ribbon 22, overlying the main type-bed and the addressing-chain 32, and by also laying an envelop face downwardly upon that part of the printing-ribbon overlying the envelop-addressing chain 46, and causing the impression-roller to roll over both the sheet and the envelop, not only is a complete letter, including the address, printed at a single travel of the cyl-- inder, but the address is likewise simultaneously printed upon the envelop.

Having thus described my invention,

; what ll claim and desire to secure by Let'- ters Patent is:

p 1. A multiple-copy printing machine havng, in combination, a frame for supportmg a composition, an impression-cylinder mounted for reciprocation and to travel over the composition, a rotatable form support, an endless form of composition adapted to have portions thereof moved into printing position by said form support, and means associated with said impression-cylinder for moving said form support upon each movement of reciprocation of the cylinder.

2. In a 'machine for printing multiple copies of letters with different addresses, the combination with a machine -frame adapted to hold a bed of type from-which the body of the'letter is printed, and-a carriage carryin an impression-cylinder mounted to trave thereover, of an addressing attachment comprisinga movable carrier mounted in said machine-frame, a series oftype-plates supported and successively movable into printing position by said carrier,- and means carried by said cylinder carriage for actuating said carrier at the limits lof 'travel of 'said cylinder carriage, substantially as described.

'3. In a printing machine ofthe character described, the combination with a machineframe adapted to-hold a bed of type, a printing-ribbon overlying the latter, and an impression-cylinder mounted to .travel to and fro over said ribbon, of a rotatable typechain carrier having a polygonal periphery mounted in the frame of said machine, a

type-chain mounted on said carrier the links whereof are adapted to successively rest upon the periphery of said carrier as the latter is rotated and means associated with the cylinder for moving said type-chain carrier at the end of each movement of the cylinder, substantially as described.

4. In a printing machine of the character described, the combination with a machineframe adapted to hold a bed of type, a

printing-ribbon overlying thelatter, and, a carriage containing an impression-cylinder mounted for reciprocation and to travelover said ribbon, of a rotatable type-chain carrier having a polygonal periphery mounted in the frame of said machine, a type-chain mounted on said carrier,'the links whereof l are adapted to successively rest upon the periphery of said carrier as the latter is rotated, and means automatically actuated by said carriage during each'movement of reciprocation of the latter for rotating said type-chain carrier, substantially as described.

5. In a printing machine .ofthe-character described, the combination With a machineframe adapted to hold a bed of type, a printing-ribbon overlying the latter, and a carriage containing an impression-cylinder mounted to travel over said ribbon, of a rotatable type-chain carrier having a polygonal periphery mounted in and transversely of the frame of said machine with the upper edge of said type-chain carrier substantially in the plane of the type-bed,

a type-chain mounted on said carrier the links whereof are adapted to support type, each of said links-having substantially the area of each of the flat surfaces of said carmounted to travel over said ribbon, of a shaft mounted longitudinally of and beneath said machine-frame, a type-chain carrier having a polygonal periphery mounted on said shaft and projecting across the plane of the type-bed, a typechain mounted on said carrier the links whereof have substantially the area of each of the flat surfaces of saidcarrier and are adapted to rest thereon, transversely-disposed shafts beneath and at each end of said machineframe, respectively, cooperating gears on the inner ends of said transverse shafts and the adjacent ends of said longitudinal shaft,

respectively, ratchet-disks on the outer ends of said transverse shafts, and pawls carried by said carriage adapted to strike and actuate said ratchet-disks at the limits of movement of said carriage over the machineframe, substantially as described.

7. In a machine for printing multiple copies of letters with dlfi'erent addresses, and simultaneously printing envelops therefor, a stationary flat bed of type, an inkingribbon over said type from which the body of a letter is printed, said machine having an impression-roller mounted to travel upon the paper laid upon the inking-ribbon, in combination with a letter-addressing attachment and an envelop-addressing attachment both mounted in the frame of said machine, and means for moving said attachments simultaneously with each reciprocation of the impression-roller, whereby to present difierent addresses successively in the printing plane, substantially as described.

8. In a machine for printing multiple copies of letters with different addresses and simultaneously printing envelops therefor, the combination with a machine-frame adapted to hold a bed of type from which the body of the letter is printed, and an im: pression-cylinder mounted to travel there over, of letter-addressing and envelope-addressing attachments mounted in said machine-frame on opposite sides of the 1ongitudinal median line of the latter, respectively, and means for automatically actuating both of said addressing attachments simultaneously with each reciprocation of the impression-cylinder whereby to present and cooperating successively with different addresses successively in the printing plane, substantially as described.

9. A multiple-copy printing machine having, in combination, a form-carrying frame, a composition, composed of a plurality of separated forms, mounted on said frame, inking means movable bodily over and 006perating with said composition, rotatable impression means movable bodily relatively to said forms, and means to cause one of said forms to move in a plane parallel to the axis of the impression means upon each operation thereof.

10. In a printing machine, a frame adapted to receive a form, impression means movable to and fro over the form and adapted to print at each backward and each forward stroke, and means for feeding and returning individual lines of type to and from the form at each forward and each backward movement of the said impression means.

11. In a printing machine, a frame, a type bed adapted to receive a form, a roller carriage carrying an impression roller, means r the form at the backward and forward movement of the roller carriage.

12. In a printing machine-a frame adapted to receive a form, a roller carriage movable to and fro over the printing surface and carrying an impression roller adapted to print at each backward and each forward stroke and means controlled by said roller carriage for automatically and periodically feeding individual lines of type from the underside of the type bed to the form during the backward and also during the forward movement of the roller carriage.

13. In a printing machine, a frame adapted to receive a form, impression means movable to and fro over the type surface and adapted to print at each forward and each backward stroke, a carrying device for an inking ribbon, means for feeding and returning individual lines of type to and from the form during each forward and also during the backward stroke of the said impression means, and means controlled by the said impression means for feeding the inking ribbon at each second stroke of the said impression means.

14. In a printing machine, a frame adapted to receive a form, impression meansmovable to and fro over the form, and means for feeding and returning individual lines of type to and from the form at each functional operation of said impression means.

15. In a printing machine of the character described, the combination with a machine frame adapted to hold a bed of type, an impression cylinder mounted for reciprocation and to travel over said bed of type, of a rotatable type-chain carrier mounted in the frame of the machine, a type-chain adapted to have the links thereof successively moved into printing position by said carrier, and means associated with said impression cylinder for moving said type-chain carrier upon each movement of reciprocation of the cylinde'r.

16. A printing machine having, in combination, a form-carrying frame, a form of composition on the frame, an endless form of composition adapted to have portions thereof successively brought into printing position, a rotatable impression roller movable bodily over and cooperating with said forms,-advancing means for moving said endless form in a plane substantially parallel to the axis of said impression roller, and means for operating said advancing means upon each bodily movement of the impression roller.

17. A printing machine having, in combination, a type-bed, an impression roller adapted to bodily travel thereover, a feeding member and having a polygonal periphery of 10 portions of the chain being adapted to be received in said notches whereby the linksof the type-chain are properly presented and .positioned successively.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have hereunto subscribed 15 my name in the presence of two witnesses.

BENJAMIN OTTO FANSLOW.

Witnesses: v

SAMUEL N. POND, FREDERICK C. Goonwm. 

